lythraceae (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Lythraceae*:
NOUN	plant	Lythraceae, family Lythraceae, loosestrife family	herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers

English > *Lythraceae*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	herbs and shrubs and small trees with pink or purple flowers.
Synonyms	family Lythraceae, loosestrife family
Member of	Myrtales, order Myrtales, Thymelaeales, order Thymelaeales	Myrtaceae
Members	Lagerstroemia, genus Lagerstroemia	shrubs or small trees of tropical Asia and Africa usually with showy white, pink, or purplish flowers
Members	Lythrum, genus Lythrum	loosestrife
Broader	dicot family, magnoliopsid family	family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanish	litráceas

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